Mother Teresa

"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"We are not really social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world."

"One hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

"Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me."

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."

"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other it takes just a second but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever."

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness and compassion rather than to work miracles in unkindness and bitterness."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men, and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel all their joys and sorrows."

"Love has a hem on its garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets."

"Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live."

"I try to give to poor people for love not just for money."

"The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace."

"Forgiveness is a choice we make consciously, every single time we choose to make it."

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

"Materialism is the great evil of the world."

"The purpose of my life is to love God and to serve Him in the person of others."

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."

"Work without love is slavery."

"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you."

"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious about next week, next year, next everything, when all there ever is, is one moment, and it is the moment you are in now."

"Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you."

"I believe that each one of us was made for a purpose."

"The way your employees feel is exactly how your customers feel. And if your employees don't feel valued, neither will your customers."

"All of us are but a small wire in God's tapestry."

"Never let anyone come to you without leaving better and happier."

"Love cannot remain by itself it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"We are called to love one another as I have loved you."